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Film company list
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The Film Company type holds companies that have funded or released films. It also includes movie studios.
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The Fox Film Corporation was an American company which produced motion pictures, formed in 1915 when founder William Fox merged two companies he had established in 1913: Greater New York Film Rental, a distribution firm, which was part of the...
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is a large Japanese independent film studio. It is headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, and is one of the core companies of the Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group. In the West, it is best known as the producer of many daikaijũ (monster) and tokusatsu (special...
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| Pinewood Studios |
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Pinewood Studios is a major British film studio situated in Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire. Approximately 20 miles west of Central London on what was the estate of Heatherden Hall, the studios were created in 1934 by Charles Boot and built within 12...
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| Twickenham Film Studios | Company |
Twickenham Film Studios is a film studio located in St Margarets, London, England, that is used by many motion picture and television companies. It was established in 1913 by Dr. Ralph Jupp on the site of a former ice-rink. At the time of its...
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| Lime Grove Studios | Company |
Lime Grove Studios was a film studio complex built by the Gaumont Film Company in 1915 situated in a street named Lime Grove, in Shepherd's Bush London W12 near Hammersmith, west London and described by Gaumont as "the finest studio in Great Britain...
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| Ealing Studios |
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Ealing Studios is a television and film production company and facilities provider at Ealing Green in West London and is officially the oldest film studio in the world.
The site had been previously occupied by Will Barker Studios from 1896, but was...
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| Hammer Film Productions |
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Hammer Film Productions is a film production company based in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1934, the company is best known for the series of Gothic "Hammer Horror" films produced from the late 1950s until the 1970s. Hammer also produced science...
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| Gaumont Film Company |
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Gaumont is a French film production company founded in 1895 by the engineer-turned-inventor, Léon Gaumont (1864-1946). It is the oldest running film company in the world. Originally dealing in photographic apparatuses, the company began producing...
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| Essanay Studios |
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The Essanay Film Manufacturing Company was a motion picture studio founded on August 10, 1907 in the neighborhood of Uptown, Chicago, IL by George K. Spoor and Broncho Billy Anderson under the name Essanay ("S and A"). It is best known today for its...
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| Merchant Ivory Productions | Company |
Merchant Ivory Productions (1961- ) is a film company founded by director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant. Their films were for the most part directed by the former, produced by the latter and scripted by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (a noted...
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| Rank Organisation |
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The Rank Organisation was a British entertainment company formed in 1937 and absorbed in 1996 by The Rank Group Plc. Its film division once distributed Universal Pictures releases in the UK.
The Rank Organisation was created by J. Arthur Rank in...
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| Major film studios | Company |
A major film studio is a movie production and distribution company that releases a substantial number of films annually and consistently commands a significant share of box-office revenues in a given market. In the North American, Western, and...
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| DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme | Company |
DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme was a famous film studio in the German Democratic Republic-GDR (the German Democratic Republic is also known as the Deutsche Demokratische Republik-DDR), maybe best known for its fairy tale films. The DEFA-Studio für...
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| Trigger Street Productions | Company |
Trigger Street Productions is an entertainment production company formed by Kevin Spacey in 1997. Its credits include Beyond the Sea, The United States of Leland and The Big Kahuna on screen, as well as stage productions of The Iceman Cometh and...
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| Focus Features |
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Focus Features (formerly USA Films, Universal Focus and Good Machine) is the art house films division of NBC Universal's Universal Pictures, and acts as both a producer and distributor for its own films and a distributor for foreign film.
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| Fox Searchlight Pictures |
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Fox Searchlight Pictures is the specialty film division of 20th Century Fox, established in 1994. It has a more indie slant than its parent company, and has produced and/or distributed films.
In 2006, a sub-label, Fox Atomic, was created to produce...
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| Zeitgeist Films | Company |
Zeitgeist Films is an American independent film distributor based in New York City. It was founded in June, 1988 by co-presidents Nancy Gerstman and Emily Russo. Films distributed by Zeitgeist Films are strongly auteur-driven and offer a very...
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| Mosfilm |
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Mosfilm (Russian: Мосфильм; ) is a film studio, which is often described as the largest and oldest in Russia and in Europe. Its output includes most of the more widely-acclaimed Soviet films, ranging from works by Tarkovsky and Eisenstein (commonly...
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| Aglet Productions | Company |
Aglet Productions is a "no- and low-budget" movie production company, headed by Karl T. Hirsch and responsible for the 1998 movie Green.
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| Nikkatsu | Company |
is Japan entertainment company well known for its film and television productions. It is Japan's oldest major movie studio. The name Nikkatsu is an abbreviation of Nippon Katsudō Shashin, literally "Japan Cinematograph Company".
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| Shepperton Studios | Company |
Shepperton Studios, located in Shepperton, Surrey, England is a film studio with a long history of film making.
Film history began at Shepperton Studios in 1931, when Norman Loudon, a dynamic Scottish businessman, bought Littleton Park with its...
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| Fox Entertainment Group |
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Fox Entertainment Group is an American entertainment industry company that owns film studio and terrestrial, cable, and direct broadcast satellite television properties. It is wholly owned and controlled by American media conglomerate News...
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| Lenfilm |
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Kinostudiya "Lenfilm" (in Russian, Киностудия Ленфи́льм) is a production unit of the Russian film industry, with its own film studio, located in Saint Petersburg, Russia, formerly Leningrad, R.S.F.S.R. Today OAO "Kinostudiya Lenfilm" is a...
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| Elstree Studios | Company |
Historically, the name "Elstree Studios" refers to any of several film studio that were based in the towns of Borehamwood and Elstree in Hertfordshire, England.
Despite being called “Elstree Studios” only one studio was actually located in Elstree...
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| Amicus Productions | Company |
Amicus Productions is a British film production company, based at Shepperton Studios, England. It was founded by American producer and screenwriter Milton Subotsky and Max Rosenberg.
Amicus is perhaps best known for Subotsky's own trademark...
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| Leavesden Film Studios | Company |
Leavesden Film Studios is a film and media complex constructed on the site of the former Rolls-Royce factory at Leavesden Aerodrome, which was an important centre of aircraft production during World War II. It is situated in west Hertfordshire...
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| October Films | Company |
October Films was a U.S. independent film production company and distributor founded in 1991 by Bingham Ray and Jeff Lipsky as a means of distributing the 1990 film Life Is Sweet.
A series of mergers and acquisitions began when Universal Pictures ...
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| Castle Rock Entertainment |
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Castle Rock Entertainment is a film and television production company founded in 1987 by Martin Shafer, director Rob Reiner, Andy Scheinman, Glenn Padnick and Alan Horn, with Columbia Pictures as a strategic partner. Columbia invested at formation...
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| LUX | Company |
LUX is the principal centre for the promotion and distribution of experimental film and video works in the UK.
It has one of the largest collections of experimental film and video art and houses works of over 1000 artists. It was formed in the...
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| Dimension Films | Company |
Dimension Films is a motion picture unit currently a part of The Weinstein Company. It was formerly used as Bob Weinstein's label within Miramax Films, to produce and release genre films. The Weinstein Brothers took this label with them when they...
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| Film4 Productions | Company |
Film4 Productions is a British film production company owned by Channel 4. The company has been responsible for backing a large number of films made in the United Kingdom. The company's first production was Walter, directed by Stephen Frears, which...
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| Ruby-Spears Productions |
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Ruby-Spears Productions (also known as Ruby-Spears Enterprises) is a Burbank, California-based entertainment production company that specializes in animation.
The firm was founded in 1977 by veteran writers Joe Ruby and Ken Spears. Both men started...
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| Keystone Studios |
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Keystone Studios was an early movie studio founded in Edendale, California in 1912 as the Keystone Pictures Studio by Mack Sennett with backing from Adam Kessel and Charles O. Bauman, owners of the New York Motion Picture Company. The company filmed...
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| A.k.a. Cartoon |
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a.k.a. Cartoon (sometimes stylized as a.k.a. CARTOON) is a Canadian animation company located in Vancouver, BC. It was founded on April 1, 1994, by Danny Antonucci.
a.k.a. created and produced The Brothers Grunt for MTV but is best known for Ed,...
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| Gainsborough Pictures | Company |
Gainsborough Pictures was a film studio based on the south bank of the Regent's Canal, in Poole Street, Hoxton in the London Borough of Hackney. The studio was active between 1924 and 1951. Built as a power station for the Great Northern & City...
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| Mandalay Entertainment | Company |
Mandalay Entertainment is a film production company, founded in 1995. They partner with Columbia Pictures and Universal Pictures for most of their films (the best known probably being I Know What You Did Last Summer).
They also own, via their...
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| Fresco Pictures | Company |
Fresco Pictures is a relatively young film company, formed in 1996 and based in Los Angeles. The principals of the corporation are Peter Johnson and science fiction author Orson Scott Card, author of Ender's Game.
Current works in progress are:
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| Jim Henson's Creature Shop |
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Jim Henson's Creature Shop is a company founded in 1979 by puppeteer Jim Henson, creator of The Muppets.
It was originally created as a result of the observation that the team that had been put together for The Dark Crystal was extremely hard to...
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| Bad Robot Productions |
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